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the tricare system is the fastest-growing part of the pentagon budget. tricare spending has risen from 18 billion in 2001 to 56 billion today. this is largely the result of wartime decisions, including expanding tricare to include national guard and reserve, which it did not before because they made up 40% of the fighting force, keeping copays and enrollment fees extremely low so that the price for troops and retirees is a tiny fraction of the private sector cost. and during this time, the cost of private sector health insurance has skyrocketed, so the differential between getting health insurance in the tricare system versus in the private sector has gone from 3-1 to 9-1. so the number of people eligible for tricare who participating in the system has risen from 22% to 59% as a result of basic economics. in addition, the raw numbers of claims in the tricare system has risen extensively. for example, behavioral counseling, health counseling for troops and families rose by 65%. counseling for the children of troops has risen by 85%. medical visits from ac
the tricare system is the fastest-growing part of the pentagon budget. tricare spending has risen from 18 billion in 2001 to 56 billion today. this is largely the result of wartime decisions, including expanding tricare to include national guard and reserve, which it did not before because they made up 40% of the fighting force, keeping copays and enrollment fees extremely low so that the price for troops and retirees is a tiny fraction of the private sector cost. and during this time, the cost...
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pentagon personnel. breaking news -- american airlines and us airways have completed their merger. they are now ranked as the world's biggest airline. willmerican airlines name live on while us airways will disappear. the merger survived a challenge from the government and criticism from groups who feared it would lead to higher prices. personnel changes in the administration. today is the last day for bruce president biden's chief of staff. he will have the broad foundation. succeeds bruce reed tomorrow. the senate is expected to clear a house passed ill extending for 10 years a ban on entirely plastic ones. also members will resume consideration of the 2014 defense funding bill and vote on the confirmation of patricia and the vote will be the first test of how republicans respond to the democratic changes in filibuster rules. watch live senate coverage on c- span2 at 2:00 p.m. eastern time, or you can listen today live on c-span radio. white house coverage on c-span at noon. those are the latest headli
pentagon personnel. breaking news -- american airlines and us airways have completed their merger. they are now ranked as the world's biggest airline. willmerican airlines name live on while us airways will disappear. the merger survived a challenge from the government and criticism from groups who feared it would lead to higher prices. personnel changes in the administration. today is the last day for bruce president biden's chief of staff. he will have the broad foundation. succeeds bruce...
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host: general dempsey yesterday at the pentagon. this headline -- there is this from just ramirez on our twitter page -- back to your calls. pentagon lifting the ban on women in combat. a democrat from kentucky. caller: i was watching the news yesterday, there was a lady who joined the marines in 1970, and she made it through the basics and her husband did not. she waited three years in the marines, and the marines is the hardest one there was. she said yesterday, there are as many men who cannot make it as there are women. the reason why they do not get their chance at -- 1500 have been killed in these past two wars over there. if they want to go, i see no reason for them not to go. host: thank you for the call. another part of this debate -- sexual harassment. according to dod, there were just over 3100 reports of sexual harassment in 2011, and a similar number in 2010, 3158. those figures are courtesy of d.o.t.. bill joins us from illinois, good morning to you. caller: i am a combat decorated veteran from vietnam. when i tell my
host: general dempsey yesterday at the pentagon. this headline -- there is this from just ramirez on our twitter page -- back to your calls. pentagon lifting the ban on women in combat. a democrat from kentucky. caller: i was watching the news yesterday, there was a lady who joined the marines in 1970, and she made it through the basics and her husband did not. she waited three years in the marines, and the marines is the hardest one there was. she said yesterday, there are as many men who...
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that all comes out of the pentagon. that are a lot of talks have a real interest in seeing these talks succeed as well. you saying that this is just about sequestration basically. all the other fights that we saw, i different times or on a different policy front. >> republicans are not going to get in on revenues. they will not give in any affordable care act. it'll take over. it is an election year. this will be in november. for a lot of people it will be on primaries. the primary season begins very quickly in two thousand 14. particularly in the republican party, it is going to start playing itself out very quickly in the heartland, not in the lead conference rooms of washington. >> thank you both for your time. we appreciate it. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] can see the interview with chris van hollen again later today at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. there's also a rebroadcast on c- span radio. c-span radio has a new channel radio
that all comes out of the pentagon. that are a lot of talks have a real interest in seeing these talks succeed as well. you saying that this is just about sequestration basically. all the other fights that we saw, i different times or on a different policy front. >> republicans are not going to get in on revenues. they will not give in any affordable care act. it'll take over. it is an election year. this will be in november. for a lot of people it will be on primaries. the primary season...
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within the pentagon. i think based on the total reduction in force, the 100,000 reduction in force that will happen post-afghanistan, that they are beginning now -- i think that is a product of that reduction in force. i think that is probably a good thing, to make sure you have the right leadership structure so it does not become too top heavy. whether it is our great nco corps, enlisted men and women, or junior officers, is there a balance within the force structure? if there is not, that could also be a situation where the folks down the line say, where is the priority for everyone? the proper balance in the force and the reduction in the flag officers, i think, is something that necessarily needs to follow with the total reduction in force. >> some of those dismissals have been for cause, sort of a rash of generals and admirals that have run into trouble one way or the other. what do you think about that phenomenon? do you think the military is being too tough on people, not accepting any errors at al
within the pentagon. i think based on the total reduction in force, the 100,000 reduction in force that will happen post-afghanistan, that they are beginning now -- i think that is a product of that reduction in force. i think that is probably a good thing, to make sure you have the right leadership structure so it does not become too top heavy. whether it is our great nco corps, enlisted men and women, or junior officers, is there a balance within the force structure? if there is not, that...
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host: if you do not cut from the pentagon, where does the money come from? guest: well, twofold when you try to balance the budget. i used to teach home economics. you can decrease spending or increase revenue. first and foremost, if we could put some revenue-enhancing opportunities for growth, and i'm not talking about tax increases, but getting jobs back, that would bring more revenue back into the country. something simple is to approve the keystone pipeline, which would provide more jobs. if we could provide more certainty for job creators, i know businesses would grow. he would hire. a part of that is to have certainty about our health care intem, which right now is major turmoil. employers do not know what to expect from the president's health care plan and their implications, so they are not hiring and they are laying off workers. if we could get that right, that would make a huge difference for our economy. the other thing is to spend wisely. budget,60% of the mandatory spending categories, and that is driving up the budget. it is time to be smart an
host: if you do not cut from the pentagon, where does the money come from? guest: well, twofold when you try to balance the budget. i used to teach home economics. you can decrease spending or increase revenue. first and foremost, if we could put some revenue-enhancing opportunities for growth, and i'm not talking about tax increases, but getting jobs back, that would bring more revenue back into the country. something simple is to approve the keystone pipeline, which would provide more jobs....
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pentagon,l, at the ultimately responsibility is to the pentagon comptroller, who reports directly to the secretary of defense. but under the weird way the defense department was established after world war i -- after worldre war ii, the defense department lobbying congress, were allowed to retain independent authority. so they have their own accounting systems. the secretary of defense has had little power to force them to bring together any united system in which data can be shared. host: in your story, you talk dfas.this agency called what is that? >> the defense finance accounting service, and it handles a lot of jobs, everything from military pay to paying the bills to basic accounting on behalf of military services. but there are quite a lot of -- it operatese to a large extent on machines. each of the military services has their own completely different sets of machines with different kind of data that has to be forced from pipelines. there has been an endless stream of errors, and numbers that do not add up. is financial statements fiction because there is no way to come up wi
pentagon,l, at the ultimately responsibility is to the pentagon comptroller, who reports directly to the secretary of defense. but under the weird way the defense department was established after world war i -- after worldre war ii, the defense department lobbying congress, were allowed to retain independent authority. so they have their own accounting systems. the secretary of defense has had little power to force them to bring together any united system in which data can be shared. host: in...
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what did you hear there from the chairman of the threats that we're facing in this country, and the pentagon strategy overall? >> it is a remarkable time in washington, in that every day, we have new headlines, new stories about north korea, syria, iran, afghanistan, about all these missions or potential missions facing the u.s. military. we unseemly parts of the world. at the same time every day, we have pretty much chaos when it comes to how to fund these operations, fund the pentagon, with the cut in military spending. congress and the white house are completely far apart. even within congress they can't agree on how to pay for all of this, and this is really affecting the pentagon in this day and age, whether you think there should be more or less money devote to military spending, the uncertain is he it is -- the uncertainty is a problem. >> he talks in one voice about red lines and we need not to back off of red lines, but then in the next breath he was saying i don't want to get involved anywhere because we're not in the position to get involved in all of these places. and when you ta
what did you hear there from the chairman of the threats that we're facing in this country, and the pentagon strategy overall? >> it is a remarkable time in washington, in that every day, we have new headlines, new stories about north korea, syria, iran, afghanistan, about all these missions or potential missions facing the u.s. military. we unseemly parts of the world. at the same time every day, we have pretty much chaos when it comes to how to fund these operations, fund the pentagon,...
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we came up with a model that fixed the pentagon. the pentagon used to have the services staffing and fighting separate wars. they would equip themselves separately. we decided to do what the military did. a joint command was created. he can come from any military service. they now trained and equipped to gather. -- togetherthe dni is the joint commander across 16 intel agencies. he leverage is their strength to produce intel products. that is the backbone of how we get intelligence to policy makers and that has dramatically improved. on the fusion centers, that is a different thing. those are local centers that have gone up to serve local law enforcement. they pull together national intelligence streams that they get from the homeland security department or the fbi with streams of local intelligence and a share it. the homelands department has tried to insist on privacy in these agencies and provide some financial support. this is a work in progress. some of them worked very well. one in los angeles works very well. other communitie
we came up with a model that fixed the pentagon. the pentagon used to have the services staffing and fighting separate wars. they would equip themselves separately. we decided to do what the military did. a joint command was created. he can come from any military service. they now trained and equipped to gather. -- togetherthe dni is the joint commander across 16 intel agencies. he leverage is their strength to produce intel products. that is the backbone of how we get intelligence to policy...
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host: how big a deal is this at the pentagon? guest: this is a big deal for the pentagon. the information in this gao report as well as the associated press report last week is usually embarrassing for the pentagon. they say this is a program we need to take a second -- take a second look at. note thatrtant to there is progress being made. people are being maimed and their names are getting back to their families but it is the inefficiency as to the speed at which that is happening is blistering. host: who is general mckeaugue who runs jpac? guest: his name will be in the spotlight. they would like to see him testify about where this effort has gone off the rails. the joint pow mia accounting -- accounting command based in hawaii. 83,000 or so americans are still missing in action. according to jpac. gave, most that you of those were from world war ii, 73,000. most are on discoverable? guest: at this time, yes. the technology does not allow us to go to the bottom of the atlantic ocean or the pacific ocean. i think it is important to remember that jpac and the general and h
host: how big a deal is this at the pentagon? guest: this is a big deal for the pentagon. the information in this gao report as well as the associated press report last week is usually embarrassing for the pentagon. they say this is a program we need to take a second -- take a second look at. note thatrtant to there is progress being made. people are being maimed and their names are getting back to their families but it is the inefficiency as to the speed at which that is happening is...
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on the sequester in the pentagon, it's about 5%. it should be a non, should be a no brainer to get down to that level. but because of the way congress has decided to set it up and impose it and because of the way the pentagon has discarded the little bit of flexibility they have in implementing it, both entities have made it, know, a pretty painful exercise for all kinds of bad reasons. political agendas, don't you dare do this to us next year, you damn well better give us the money. you know, that behavior is all over the place. guest: winslow's 5% is actually a minimum of 10% off the president's f.y.2014 request, and given that he's going to exempt personnel it's actually 15% cut from the procurement and operations in maintenance budgets, which is quite a different thing. it's three times when he's talking about. guest: 10%, it's 52 billion for 2014, he's right about that being about 10% of the 2014 request. for 2013 it was turned out to be 37, maybe $32 billion, something well less than 10%. if you count all defense spending or w
on the sequester in the pentagon, it's about 5%. it should be a non, should be a no brainer to get down to that level. but because of the way congress has decided to set it up and impose it and because of the way the pentagon has discarded the little bit of flexibility they have in implementing it, both entities have made it, know, a pretty painful exercise for all kinds of bad reasons. political agendas, don't you dare do this to us next year, you damn well better give us the money. you know,...
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host: what is up first for the pentagon? guest: they got through a tough defense authorization bill. that sets policy. they have been reducing spending. this was part of the budget control act. host: is that plan set? guest: after 2013, they will have more discretion as to how cuts will be applied. there is still the threat of sequester. they gave themselves about two months to try to find the kind of savings that would avert a sequester. their caps that are set in law that say how much you can spend on defense. host: the defense authorization bill had authorized a budget of $633 billion for defense. $80 billion for the afghanistan war. does that address those cuts that have to be made? guest: the bill set aside what would happen to the overseas contingency operations fund, the war funding. the overseas funding does fall. but those numbers are expected to climb. it was $158 billion or so for that. we're on a glide path out of afghanistan so those numbers will decline. host: to know what chuck hagel has said about sequestrati
host: what is up first for the pentagon? guest: they got through a tough defense authorization bill. that sets policy. they have been reducing spending. this was part of the budget control act. host: is that plan set? guest: after 2013, they will have more discretion as to how cuts will be applied. there is still the threat of sequester. they gave themselves about two months to try to find the kind of savings that would avert a sequester. their caps that are set in law that say how much you can...
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i don't think it's just about the pentagon. but the pentagon is the biggest bill payer in the sequestration. so there's a lot of attention being focused on it. host: we're talking about the bloomberg government posing new report on defense contracts spending where they found the top tender's 642012 defense contracts spending included eight democrats and two republicans. chris in jamaica, new york, independent. caller: my question concerned the outsourcing of contracts overseas. you covered how we breakdown the contracts across the united states. i was wondering what percentage of contracts are outsourced overseas? i know than it supports the economies overseas more than ours. i was just curious about that. also, you mentioned this morning about the f-35. are -- i spot the f-22 was going to be the last land jet -- manned jet aircraft moving forward. host: got it. guest: the outsourcing contracts overseas, a lot of the support for our bases overseas go to foreign companies. everything from picking up the trash at a base in german
i don't think it's just about the pentagon. but the pentagon is the biggest bill payer in the sequestration. so there's a lot of attention being focused on it. host: we're talking about the bloomberg government posing new report on defense contracts spending where they found the top tender's 642012 defense contracts spending included eight democrats and two republicans. chris in jamaica, new york, independent. caller: my question concerned the outsourcing of contracts overseas. you covered how...
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no specific proposal from the pentagon's top leadership, and that was really disappointing. for that commission to have a chance to put up there some specific proposals that could then be vetted and discussed and so forth, they needed a starting point from the pentagon. the pentagon has not advocated a proposal that a lot of people have put their hopes in, and that is a disappointment. they will continue to work and we will see that they come up with. we have to see whether the current pay and benefits system has affected our getting and keeping top quality folks. one example, we're going to increasingly need top-quality technical folks who can deal in the realm of cyber. we are competing with google and microsoft and all of those companies. maybe the current personnel system and the way we compensate people with a 20 year retirement plan is not what you need to recruit and retain those folks. my point is, in addition to trying to look at curtailing the long-term costs of the current personnel system, i think you also have to look and see whether the current system is effect
no specific proposal from the pentagon's top leadership, and that was really disappointing. for that commission to have a chance to put up there some specific proposals that could then be vetted and discussed and so forth, they needed a starting point from the pentagon. the pentagon has not advocated a proposal that a lot of people have put their hopes in, and that is a disappointment. they will continue to work and we will see that they come up with. we have to see whether the current pay and...
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and giving the pentagon the flexibility to implement the cuts. being able to allow those departments the flexibility to implement those cuts. it looks like maybe they can come together on an agreement and will avoid another government shut down. >> the senate democrats and house republicans to a quick conference on the continuing resolution. almostway to look at it as if they are taking baby steps. they're not fighting as much ,ver the day today fighting which is what a couple of years ago. now they're starting to work better on that. they're turning their attention to see if they could extend that to the medium-term and long-term budget impacts. and you study represents the conservative part of the republican conference. years passed, the freshman tea party came in. there seemed to be a faction within the party. do you see less of that or more of it as we go forward? >> i think there was a sense that perhaps the tea party had been muted a bit. after all, they voted for a tax increase and got a tax increase through the house. russell asked the co
and giving the pentagon the flexibility to implement the cuts. being able to allow those departments the flexibility to implement those cuts. it looks like maybe they can come together on an agreement and will avoid another government shut down. >> the senate democrats and house republicans to a quick conference on the continuing resolution. almostway to look at it as if they are taking baby steps. they're not fighting as much ,ver the day today fighting which is what a couple of years...
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and giving the pentagon flexibility to implement those cuts. senate democrats are most concerned about the domestic agencies transportation education and being able to allow those departments to the flexibility to implement those cuts and it looks like maybe they can come together on an agreement and will avoid another government shutdown. >> so the senate democrats and house republicans do a quick conference on this continuing resolution. it gets passed and you avoid a government shutdown. >> that's correct. >> the way to look at it almost as if they're taking baby steps. they're not fighting as much over the day-to-day funding which is what we started with couple of years ago when the republicans took the majority in the house. so now that they're starting to work together a little better they're turning their attention and seeing if they could extend that to the medium term and long term budget impass. >> steve, the new chairman of the republican study committee, represents the conservative part of the conference of the republican conference
and giving the pentagon flexibility to implement those cuts. senate democrats are most concerned about the domestic agencies transportation education and being able to allow those departments to the flexibility to implement those cuts and it looks like maybe they can come together on an agreement and will avoid another government shutdown. >> so the senate democrats and house republicans do a quick conference on this continuing resolution. it gets passed and you avoid a government...
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after that falls on the pentagon. that theytagon agrees need to come down, that it is but the way the budget control act and sequestration works is that they -- with the bill does is round that out. you still get at the end of the tenure. dollars cut billion in defense, but the pentagon gets back 20 billion this year. host: you mean that would've been cut under the sequester guest:. yes. first, they don't like the full 500 billion dollar cut. the president's request is for smaller cut. i'm sure there are generals and al's that don't want to be cut at all. the head of the army was a first that i heard was doing this. but all the other top brass picked this up. we slowed us down, give us time to implement. you slam it all and is so fast, we're going to have to find things like cutting trading. trading is important for troops. the numbers for fiscal 2014, the budget for that pentagon cap the to 520 billion. for 2015 they capped at 521 billion. it has been 512 under the sequester. policy, the defense authorization bill is
after that falls on the pentagon. that theytagon agrees need to come down, that it is but the way the budget control act and sequestration works is that they -- with the bill does is round that out. you still get at the end of the tenure. dollars cut billion in defense, but the pentagon gets back 20 billion this year. host: you mean that would've been cut under the sequester guest:. yes. first, they don't like the full 500 billion dollar cut. the president's request is for smaller cut. i'm sure...
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strategies are devised from the bottom up in both the pentagon and the congress. in the pentagon, requirements are generated through a process that michelle understands better than i do. i have tried. i will tell you that by the time that process would reach the level of michelle, it is not fully baked. it is substantially day. it is not impossible for a gifted bureaucrat michelle's level to move that ross is, but it is challenging. , but it is challenging. a lot of bargains have been strapped and he gets very hard even to the pentagon leadership to fundamentally reorient it. in the congress, a parallel processes happening. it originates in the congressional districts and with constituent enterprises. works its way up through individual congressmen. at the top level, we decry an absence of leadership. thent you to see, among most highly motivated congressmen and secretaries of defense, the system makes it to makey difficult agile, strategic moves for reorientation. it is not impossible to beat this. you had a very high degree of clarity at the top, and that clarit
strategies are devised from the bottom up in both the pentagon and the congress. in the pentagon, requirements are generated through a process that michelle understands better than i do. i have tried. i will tell you that by the time that process would reach the level of michelle, it is not fully baked. it is substantially day. it is not impossible for a gifted bureaucrat michelle's level to move that ross is, but it is challenging. , but it is challenging. a lot of bargains have been strapped...
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are we trying to use any models from the pentagon? also, it worries me that we are going to have to replicate something that apparently, in the pentagon, we are doing fairly effectively. how do we take those lessons? can dhs get to a point where it is, frankly, as effective as some of the work being done at the pentagon? >> that is an excellent question. indeed, the pilot programs you are referring to, called the dib pilot program, meaning the defense industrial base, we issued a report over that program. as it happens, we have also made a recommendation in a report that will be coming out soon, so i cannot really talk about it yet -- the executive order has a line in it, i think under the information sharing section, to look at that program, the defense program and expand it to the other sector, or the other critical infrastructure sectors. that is one of the activities that is planned. >> do you think that dhs will have the current capability to do that? the pentagon is obviously in a situation where they are dealing with a national
are we trying to use any models from the pentagon? also, it worries me that we are going to have to replicate something that apparently, in the pentagon, we are doing fairly effectively. how do we take those lessons? can dhs get to a point where it is, frankly, as effective as some of the work being done at the pentagon? >> that is an excellent question. indeed, the pilot programs you are referring to, called the dib pilot program, meaning the defense industrial base, we issued a report...
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when the pentagon says they're decommission it, people say you cannot do that. the battle over the size of the national guard. congress has got to wake up and understand the budgets are getting smaller. intelligentome decisions and scissor trying to defend every little piece of the budget. i think the pentagon tried to take a holistic approach. i hope they start to be more cooperative. we can make sure that we have the training equipment necessary for the military. >> this budget that will be dropping is probably going to be the first one we have seen that will confirm with the caps we have seen in the budget control act. smith were the secretary of defense, where would the cuts most heavily fall? we were talking about compensation and benefits. this will not go until may or june. this probably will not reform the alteration bills. make of reduction specifically? >> certainly you have to look at the personnel side. i think there's money to be saved on the nuclear side. over 51 hundred nuclear warheads which more than meets our needs going forward. there are ways
when the pentagon says they're decommission it, people say you cannot do that. the battle over the size of the national guard. congress has got to wake up and understand the budgets are getting smaller. intelligentome decisions and scissor trying to defend every little piece of the budget. i think the pentagon tried to take a holistic approach. i hope they start to be more cooperative. we can make sure that we have the training equipment necessary for the military. >> this budget that...
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a lot of interest in what is going on in the tricare and pentagon health care systems. i have a lot of staffers on the hill who are contacted me and my students all the time, trying to get information. i have not seen that translate into somebody who would fall on their swords, so to speak, to try and lead a complete transformation in how we think about war costs. i don't see anyone who is about to take that charge. those who have looked at it carefully, for example bob filner, who was the head of the veterans committee who very much embraced reform ideas for the disability system. he left congress now and is mayor of san diego. so some of them have moved on. >> [indiscernible] >> two years ago when doug holtz-eakin and i were leading a discussion on the lifting of the debt ceiling, some other republicans who were there actually walked out of the room. this year we did not have that. more willing to listen. wing of theextreme tea party typically does not attend the harvard new members conferences. [laughter] >> among economists, is very significant debate about your est
a lot of interest in what is going on in the tricare and pentagon health care systems. i have a lot of staffers on the hill who are contacted me and my students all the time, trying to get information. i have not seen that translate into somebody who would fall on their swords, so to speak, to try and lead a complete transformation in how we think about war costs. i don't see anyone who is about to take that charge. those who have looked at it carefully, for example bob filner, who was the head...
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the pentagon will have to cut $500 billion over the next decade. the discussion was hosted by the brookings institution. >> good morning. called dissecting the pentagon strategic choices and management review. i am marvin calvin. i am a senior advisor to the center for crisis reporting which is located just next door. way back in august 2011 which is only two years ago congress passed and the president signed into law a legislative monstrosity called the budget control act. it was a way of doing something when nothing seemed worse. at least at that time. a joint committee was set up to control the spiraling deficit. congress warned that if they fail to come up with a solution sequestration would automatically although. these cuts have now begun. the pentagon was already prepared to cut 150 billion dollars over the next 10 years. sequestration would require $500 billion in cuts over the next 10 years. last week check hagel warned that cut of that magnitude would not only affect entitlement such as salary, housing, education and the like but it would
the pentagon will have to cut $500 billion over the next decade. the discussion was hosted by the brookings institution. >> good morning. called dissecting the pentagon strategic choices and management review. i am marvin calvin. i am a senior advisor to the center for crisis reporting which is located just next door. way back in august 2011 which is only two years ago congress passed and the president signed into law a legislative monstrosity called the budget control act. it was a way...
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the president is touring the country talking about sequester, the department of defense, the pentagon, and our men and women in uniform are preparing for furloughs across the country. these are for laws that will the people protecting our country and protect our national security. while that is occurring, the only work being done on sequester in the white house is being done in the press corps. the senate took up a bill yesterday that actually sets of sequester and replaces it with more spending. the cbo scores the bill as a $7.2 billion increase in spending the cbo scored the senate's homework as failing. the house has passed two bills and they are both on the house armed services committee website and they both replaced sequester with responsible cuts and both system and our national security and reduce overall spending. the president's team on sequester has said it is irresponsible and reckless and wrong and dangerous. we agree. in my community, wright-patterson air force base, 3000 people are facing furloughs my community is listed as number 3 in the nation that will be impacted b
the president is touring the country talking about sequester, the department of defense, the pentagon, and our men and women in uniform are preparing for furloughs across the country. these are for laws that will the people protecting our country and protect our national security. while that is occurring, the only work being done on sequester in the white house is being done in the press corps. the senate took up a bill yesterday that actually sets of sequester and replaces it with more...
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. -- billoing from the pentagon. it was a state of a lot of confusion. staff, senators rushed out of these buildings. same on the house side. the day is something i will never forget. by n remember being taken sarah nichols, who was the assistant leader of the whip, as i was, for the democratic side. senator lott, senator daschle. we were taken to the west side of the capitol, and it was an eerie situation. all kinds of people in black, very black uniforms, swat teams and others from the federal government, put us in helicopters and took us to a place, a secured facility. we during that day were constantly briefed by the vice president who had been in touch with the president on a moment-by-moment basis, and that was the determination made by the vice president, we should all come back to washington and we did. we came here without a lot of speeches prepared, unprepared, just here to show each other that we knew what was going on, what happened, not totally understanding, but something was very bad. where mull culls
. -- billoing from the pentagon. it was a state of a lot of confusion. staff, senators rushed out of these buildings. same on the house side. the day is something i will never forget. by n remember being taken sarah nichols, who was the assistant leader of the whip, as i was, for the democratic side. senator lott, senator daschle. we were taken to the west side of the capitol, and it was an eerie situation. all kinds of people in black, very black uniforms, swat teams and others from the...
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the pentagon made an announcement they would open up occupational specialties including confidantes to women. do you plan to try to block all or some of that plan? >> no. we have a process. i met with the undersecretary yesterday morning. the senate armed services committee can look incrementally as they make these changes. we can either talk them out of it or introduce legislation. if something that we do not know yet what they will come out with and they hear from the service chiefs, we will see what is reasonable. we will use our own judgment. i caution people who are hysterical about this. let's wait and see what they do. we will stop the bad stuff. >> the defense cemetery has said any exceptions will have to get approved by him. the implication is there are going to move fairly dramatically in this direction. do you have any concerns right now about what they have said so far about basically opening up all of these specialities to women? >> if they do that, they're going to have a fight on their hands. we do have that responsibility. if it means introducing legislation, that is on
the pentagon made an announcement they would open up occupational specialties including confidantes to women. do you plan to try to block all or some of that plan? >> no. we have a process. i met with the undersecretary yesterday morning. the senate armed services committee can look incrementally as they make these changes. we can either talk them out of it or introduce legislation. if something that we do not know yet what they will come out with and they hear from the service chiefs, we...
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in the days since director clapper made the comments, the intelligence community and the pentagon have recalled many if not most of their furloughed staff. in light of that, do you believe the shutdown continues to pose a threat to national security? guest: john, i do. i was in the situation room on 9/11 and spent the next 7.5 years in the bush in this ration, the first three in the white house, the next 4 and the state department, working on counterterrorism issues. we were a country at war then and we ran a country at war now. this shot -- we remain a country or more now. this shutdown of the government poses a substantial risk to our national security. we have a number of employees of intelligence agencies, cia, nsa, fbi, the defense department, department of homeland security, all important security agencies who are still out of work. some of them have been called back now. but even more important than that, the leaders of these who undoubtedly the american people expect should be focusing on leading their agencies to protect terrorist threats, are spending a substantial part of ea
in the days since director clapper made the comments, the intelligence community and the pentagon have recalled many if not most of their furloughed staff. in light of that, do you believe the shutdown continues to pose a threat to national security? guest: john, i do. i was in the situation room on 9/11 and spent the next 7.5 years in the bush in this ration, the first three in the white house, the next 4 and the state department, working on counterterrorism issues. we were a country at war...
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i first entered the pentagon in 1969 during the war in vietnam under melvin laird. jim schlesinger followed and i worked with every secretary of defense since that period of time. all different, all with their strengths and indeed some of their weaknesses, but set forth in this is a series of commitments to you as a committee, to the members of the full senate and to the american public as precisely what his goals are and what he will do. how he will serve the president, how he will give the president his best advice, and i know chuck to give it very strongly. so i am going to talk a little bit about crack hagel, the man i served with for 12 years. my distinguished colleague and longtime friend, sam, had gone when chuck arrived at the senate. first year he was here, we had daniel defense authorization -- the annual defense authorization bill on the floor, and in those days, as it is today, that bill goes on that floor, that bill stays on that floor. sometimes a couple days, sometimes a couple of weeks. we get it through. when it's done we go back to our committee's
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host: does r&d come from inside the pentagon? who is overseeing this new type of technology tactics that you were attacked -- that you are talking about? and if you can answer quickly because the houses coming in, but how how do they decide they will put the resources into the osprey versus something else? going toah, i'm not be able to answer that in a short amount of time, but there are different areas that do different research. you have the blue sky stuff, the farthest out timewise and intellectually. and then you have the office of naval research, which does a lot more near-term kinds of things. they try to graduate the technology from one to the other and tried to convince the services that they would take up the reins of this. a lot of times you develop military technology to a point where it works and it has been proven, but then you need a service to adopt it. a lot of time the r&d money kind of falls off, because no one wants to spend money to adopt that program and bring it into the field. an example of a program that
host: does r&d come from inside the pentagon? who is overseeing this new type of technology tactics that you were attacked -- that you are talking about? and if you can answer quickly because the houses coming in, but how how do they decide they will put the resources into the osprey versus something else? going toah, i'm not be able to answer that in a short amount of time, but there are different areas that do different research. you have the blue sky stuff, the farthest out timewise and...
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talk about what you did before you went to the pentagon. guest: i worked at the white house where i was the senior director of strategic planning of the national security staff. before coming to the white house asserts that the state department where i worked on secretary clinton's policy planning staff. prior to the obama administration in 2009 i worked on the transition team from president bush to president obama. host: you were heavily involved in some of the efforts around the bosnia conflict. can you talk about that? a long association with the late richard holbrooke. i assisted him in writing his memoirs and then i worked with him later when he was the u.s. ambassador to the united nations in the late 1990's during the clinton administration. a work with him on africa, which i deal with now. a continued with my association with him through 2000 helping him with various projects. host: during the bosnia conflict there are folks there who wanted walkhrow their hands up and away. bosnia tot you saw in what is going on in iraq. piercing t
talk about what you did before you went to the pentagon. guest: i worked at the white house where i was the senior director of strategic planning of the national security staff. before coming to the white house asserts that the state department where i worked on secretary clinton's policy planning staff. prior to the obama administration in 2009 i worked on the transition team from president bush to president obama. host: you were heavily involved in some of the efforts around the bosnia...
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i first entered the pentagon in 1969 during the war in vietnam under melvin laird. jim slushinger followed and i worked with every secretary of defense since that period of time. all different, all with their strengths and indeed some of their weaknesses, but set forth in this is a series of commitments to you as a committee, to the members of the full senate and to the american public as precisely what his goals are and what he will do. how he will serve the president, how he will give the president his best advice, and i know chuck to give it very strongly. so i am going to talk a little bit about crack hagel, the man i served with for 12 years. my distinguished colleague and longtime friend, sam, had gone when chuck arrived at the senate. first year he was here, we had daniel defense authorization bill on the floor, and in those days, as it is today, that bill goes on that floor, that bill stays on that floor. sometimes a couple days, sometimes a couple of weeks. we get it through. when it's done we go back to our committee's faces and we begin to write that bill
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when i came to the pentagon, there were 492 recommendations in place. many of them dealt with mistreatment of detainees. 2006, ild also note by think we have prosecuted any number of soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines in the military court for detainee of use. a couple were for homicide. there was an ongoing legal process of a criminal nature for those who perpetrated the crimes. let me segue to the second part of your question about prosecuting of high government officials. the obama administration, when they came to office, took a look at specifically the cia's interpretation program and whether the legal advice provided to those running the orgram violated the law referral to the bars and they decided, although it was regretful and mistaken, that there were no crimes. you think the time for, as are suggesting, criminal accountability before the criminal court has passed. but i think that is with the state of play is. diana in massachusetts. diana, you are on the washington journal. caller: good morning charles and peter. i wanted to go back to the
when i came to the pentagon, there were 492 recommendations in place. many of them dealt with mistreatment of detainees. 2006, ild also note by think we have prosecuted any number of soldiers, sailors, airmen or marines in the military court for detainee of use. a couple were for homicide. there was an ongoing legal process of a criminal nature for those who perpetrated the crimes. let me segue to the second part of your question about prosecuting of high government officials. the obama...
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you obviously have the and about -- pentagon involved in this, the u.s. intelligence community to the various threat assessments to see what the potential threats are in certain countries as far as regionally, threatsfar as the reaching the united states. that is an ongoing assessment from what i understand the these things are very fluid, and situations do flare up from time to time, but i think that is why there is a lot of volatility in that process. host: if you want to talk to carlo munoz of "the hill" publication, phone lines are open. on twitter-- guest: i think he had the nail right on the head as far as the main problem facing the u.s. military planners and terms of -- and diplomats in terms of what actions to take in syria. foreign fighters have become not so ingrained, but almost a part of the secular groups that are fighting to oust president bashar al-assad. aid,rms of providing u.s. or other types of support, that has been the most difficult question. funnel that to support and make sure that this notpment and materials do fall into the hand
you obviously have the and about -- pentagon involved in this, the u.s. intelligence community to the various threat assessments to see what the potential threats are in certain countries as far as regionally, threatsfar as the reaching the united states. that is an ongoing assessment from what i understand the these things are very fluid, and situations do flare up from time to time, but i think that is why there is a lot of volatility in that process. host: if you want to talk to carlo munoz...
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i first entered the pentagon in 1969 during the war in vietnam under melvin laird. jim schlesinger followed and i worked with every secretary of defense since that period of time. all different, all with their strengths and indeed some of their weaknesses, but set forth in this is a series of commitments to you as a committee, to the members of the full senate and to the american public as precisely what his goals are and what he will do. how he will serve the president, how he will give the president his best advice, and i know chuck to give it very strongly. so i am going to talk a little bit about crack hagel, the man i served with for 12 years. my distinguished colleague and longtime friend, sam, had gone when chuck arrived at the senate. first year he was here, we had daniel defense authorization -- the annual defense authorization bill on the floor, and in those days, as it is today, that bill goes on that floor, that bill stays on that floor. sometimes a couple days, sometimes a couple of weeks. we get it through. when it's done we go back to our committee's
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the pentagon seems to have arrived in a different place, in a similar place. then i had to keep going. this is not a criticism. this recent review, or skimmer it is called, by people who do not like having again from the pentagon budget. the idea here is that we're going to have to look for ways to save this 500 billion dollars. sequestration is currently the law of the land. above and beyond the kinds of changes i have artie mentioned, the $400y mentioned, billion and efficiencies, the $85 billion in compensation reform, then some modest tweaks to capability. they did a couple of things i really do not like. i'm not sure the authors like it either. one of them is to downsize the u.s. army quite a bit more than is already being planned. and the way for other discussion topics. let me give you a sense of what is being considered. the u.s. army right now is just over half a million active-duty soldiers. it has grown up to about 560,000 during the peak of the iraq and afghanistan wars. we also mobilize a national guardsman. all of these numbers are quite modest c
the pentagon seems to have arrived in a different place, in a similar place. then i had to keep going. this is not a criticism. this recent review, or skimmer it is called, by people who do not like having again from the pentagon budget. the idea here is that we're going to have to look for ways to save this 500 billion dollars. sequestration is currently the law of the land. above and beyond the kinds of changes i have artie mentioned, the $400y mentioned, billion and efficiencies, the $85...
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i did that on a number of occasions at the pentagon. >> ok. all -- whatd -- we you just said reminds me. leadership is the courage to stay out of step when everybody else is marching to the wrong 10. leadership also requires folks to lead. -- as youues know have said earlier -- this position has been vacant for months. the deputy secretary has been vacant for half a year. there are a number of other positions that need to be filled. the administration has an obligation to nominate good people. my hope is we will promptly confirm you and we will move promptly to make sure you have the team around you that you need. dr. coburn? >> thank you. again, welcome and thank you for your willingness to serve in this position. this committee and my office timelyruggled to receive responses from the department of homeland security to our inquiries and to reports that the department has moderated -- is mandated under law to provide to us. for example congress required the law in march. they are just now complying with that, but only after i threatened to ho
i did that on a number of occasions at the pentagon. >> ok. all -- whatd -- we you just said reminds me. leadership is the courage to stay out of step when everybody else is marching to the wrong 10. leadership also requires folks to lead. -- as youues know have said earlier -- this position has been vacant for months. the deputy secretary has been vacant for half a year. there are a number of other positions that need to be filled. the administration has an obligation to nominate good...
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guest: senator hagel said recently that the pentagon was bloated. he says it has not been a strategic review in years. the department of defense is already cut. there's already been chairman os martin dempsey has said that if the sequester goes through are some cuts go through, -- or some cuts through -- the pentagon has been thinking about these things for the past four years. host: we're taking an in-depth look into senator chuck hagel, and we're using a lot of material from our video library. a lot of it is available to you as well. -- all of it is available to you as well. c-span.org. from 2006, senator hagel had this to say about the middle east. [video clip] >> the leaders of these countries and that particular region have failed the people. for their own reasons. not unlike much of the trouble over the years in africa. it is not america's fault. the leaders themselves of those people and those countries and those regions have failed. have american companies taken an advantage? have there been plundering, abuses? of course. the responsibility
guest: senator hagel said recently that the pentagon was bloated. he says it has not been a strategic review in years. the department of defense is already cut. there's already been chairman os martin dempsey has said that if the sequester goes through are some cuts go through, -- or some cuts through -- the pentagon has been thinking about these things for the past four years. host: we're taking an in-depth look into senator chuck hagel, and we're using a lot of material from our video...
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i am not seeking to criticize the pentagon. i'm trying to put it into a context involving the entire budget and all of the needs of the united states, not just the military needs. if you turn it around and say that we live in an extremely turbulent world and maybe we would like, after it in a stan -- after afghanistan and iraq, to pull back. and do nationbuilding at home. are we capable of doing nationbuilding at home in a world that remains as turbulent as it is? the am going to cite opportunity i had recently to write andh dad petraeus. one wasthis week and earlier this year in the washington post. we have tried to argue that these deficit deals that have been proposed would be wonderful to have an many ways. they are not essential. what you need to do, given that america's economy has so much promise, what you need to do is tip the curve on how we are increasing the debt. if we lower our expectations a little we can wind up in a reasonable place for the next five or 10 years. long-term entitlement is a big challenge. our col
i am not seeking to criticize the pentagon. i'm trying to put it into a context involving the entire budget and all of the needs of the united states, not just the military needs. if you turn it around and say that we live in an extremely turbulent world and maybe we would like, after it in a stan -- after afghanistan and iraq, to pull back. and do nationbuilding at home. are we capable of doing nationbuilding at home in a world that remains as turbulent as it is? the am going to cite...
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i would go tok -- the pentagon and have them investigate the judge. she should recuse yourself because -- she should recuse herself. the whole thing is a circus. the veterans caught up in it, --ir restructuring [indiscernible] it is just like that lady mentioned. people overseas are treated better than our people over here. -- payingare playing close attention to the trial. caller: i have been on all channels. cnn, fox, you guys. i like keeping up with what is happening in the world. host: in west virginia, ruth. caller: i have two questions for the president. immigration. the latino gangs and drug gangs in the large cities, like the california in chicago, new york, miami, i am sure that all of those were not born here in the united states. sende second one, we can over $1 billion to the muslims, and they hate gays worse than russians? based on them. i hear nothing about that. those are my questions. what are we going to do about muslims? host: glad to have you with us this evening. jake is next in ontario. i would like to ask president obama why is h
i would go tok -- the pentagon and have them investigate the judge. she should recuse yourself because -- she should recuse herself. the whole thing is a circus. the veterans caught up in it, --ir restructuring [indiscernible] it is just like that lady mentioned. people overseas are treated better than our people over here. -- payingare playing close attention to the trial. caller: i have been on all channels. cnn, fox, you guys. i like keeping up with what is happening in the world. host: in...
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should be those at the forefront the pentagon. not because they hate soldiers. on the contrary, because, as the founders in this republic correctly identified, the concentration of military power could constitute a threat to liberty. >> in the back of your book, it talks about the american empire project. some of the other people writing one who isject deceased, yourself, james, michael, and others, most of those people would not be categorized as conservative. rex why would you be a part of the group and what is it? >> it is not my project, but oni am happy to be part of it. i am thrilled to be part of it. the american empire project is a series of books published i metropolitan books, my publisher. the series conceived of by two guys, one of whom is named thanh englehart. tom is my editor. he is also my friend. he is emphatically a person of the left, in every aspect of his politics. am i there and still claiming to be a conservative? it is the answer i gave before. conservatives and principled people on the left can make common
should be those at the forefront the pentagon. not because they hate soldiers. on the contrary, because, as the founders in this republic correctly identified, the concentration of military power could constitute a threat to liberty. >> in the back of your book, it talks about the american empire project. some of the other people writing one who isject deceased, yourself, james, michael, and others, most of those people would not be categorized as conservative. rex why would you be a part...
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the pentagon has a big problem. the can find a couple of navy units cannot involved in any political activities. you can train them maritime security or something. maybe. there's the maritime security in afghanistan. no maritime security in afghanistan. the whole entity is messed up to the core. there is very little to do. what do you do then with those countries? either cut them off or be very tough with them. that is where we are with cambodia and sri lanka. give them a road map like we're doing with burma. give them a road map. this is what you need to do. things will get better for you. >> the question here in the front. i do not know if we are including central asia in this discussion. if we are, can both give you [inaudible] >> central asia touches on what i was trying to indicate with the tactical and political agencies. we have something called the northern distribution network that is a vital and might become even more vital. we have concerns with the human rights record. thatve a base in kurdistan is probl
the pentagon has a big problem. the can find a couple of navy units cannot involved in any political activities. you can train them maritime security or something. maybe. there's the maritime security in afghanistan. no maritime security in afghanistan. the whole entity is messed up to the core. there is very little to do. what do you do then with those countries? either cut them off or be very tough with them. that is where we are with cambodia and sri lanka. give them a road map like we're...
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the pentagon uploaded it last week. he talks about the nsa spying and gives a preview of what he might say at today's hearing, this afternoon and 1:30 p.m. eastern time at the house intelligence committee. live coverage on c-span3. john, canton, ohio, republican caller. caller: good morning good i agree with the independent caller, his statement about the trust could we can't trust our government. we are having issues here, whether the examples of benghazi or we haven't gotten answers about that come up fast and furious, how about the irs? i was looking at google earth and they are showing my house, bike inrty, my kids' the front yard, my garage door open. i don't understand why we need that kind of surveillance on this. we are distrustful of the government right now, and we know that something is going on, and we know that we are paying for it and we're getting angry. people have been asleep for years are starting to wake up and realize that there's something going on. that is my statement for today. hollywood,a, flori
the pentagon uploaded it last week. he talks about the nsa spying and gives a preview of what he might say at today's hearing, this afternoon and 1:30 p.m. eastern time at the house intelligence committee. live coverage on c-span3. john, canton, ohio, republican caller. caller: good morning good i agree with the independent caller, his statement about the trust could we can't trust our government. we are having issues here, whether the examples of benghazi or we haven't gotten answers about...
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live coverage of the pentagon briefing with defense secretary britishgel and the defense secretary. in 45 minutes, a talk with the former national intelligence director, john negroponte. that a look at the president obama is upcoming trip to mexico. a discussion about propose internet sales tax ♪ host: one of the issues to be discussed today when president obama meets with the new mexican president, enrique peÑa nieto, will be the war on drugs. that is what we want to talk to you about this morning on the "washington journal" as we go through the newspapers and the websites. if you support the war on drugs, (202) 585-3880 is the number for you to call. if you are opposed to it, you can also make a, and dash a comment on our facebook page. you can send it they tweet @cspanwj, of
live coverage of the pentagon briefing with defense secretary britishgel and the defense secretary. in 45 minutes, a talk with the former national intelligence director, john negroponte. that a look at the president obama is upcoming trip to mexico. a discussion about propose internet sales tax ♪ host: one of the issues to be discussed today when president obama meets with the new mexican president, enrique peÑa nieto, will be the war on drugs. that is what we want to talk to you about this...
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leaders of the pentagon have only begun to accept that. ears theys -- for y pretended that was not going to happen. weeks we havefew seen them wrestle with the questions about how we are going to meet the spending caps. host: i'll call from detroit, michigan on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. a few things i would like to discuss. the reason why we won't have a draft is because wealthy people their children will not have to go to war. i remember during the vietnam war were people enrolled in --lege and took back it basket weaving in order to get out of the draft. that is how the whole stand. i personally believe that not all the people who enlist our going there because they're wanted to be in the army. it is a matter of fact that they can't get a job here. that was just a side comment. on c-span, within the last few months, they had someone talking about the lavish lifestyle of generals and the upper officers, where they have lavish dinner parties with soldiers serving them. they live lives of luxury. i think, from what i'v
leaders of the pentagon have only begun to accept that. ears theys -- for y pretended that was not going to happen. weeks we havefew seen them wrestle with the questions about how we are going to meet the spending caps. host: i'll call from detroit, michigan on the line for republicans. caller: good morning. a few things i would like to discuss. the reason why we won't have a draft is because wealthy people their children will not have to go to war. i remember during the vietnam war were people...
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guest: well, at the pentagon, ultimately responsibility is to the pentagon comptroller, who reports directly to the secretary of defense. but under the weird way the defense department was established after world war i i, the defense department lobbying congress, were allowed to retain independent authority. so they have their own accounting systems. the secretary of defense has had little power to force them to bring together any united system in which data can be shared. host: in your story, you talk about this agency called dfas. what is that? guest: the defense finance accounting service, and it handles a lot of jobs, everything from military pay to paying the bills to basic accounting on behalf of military services. but there are quite a lot of problems because -- it operates to a large extent on machines. each of the military services has their own completely different sets of machines with different kind of data that has to be forced from pipelines. so there has been an endless stream of errors, and numbers that do not add up. and ultimately the financial statements is fiction because
guest: well, at the pentagon, ultimately responsibility is to the pentagon comptroller, who reports directly to the secretary of defense. but under the weird way the defense department was established after world war i i, the defense department lobbying congress, were allowed to retain independent authority. so they have their own accounting systems. the secretary of defense has had little power to force them to bring together any united system in which data can be shared. host: in your story,...
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we need to make real changes at the pentagon. you have people who are authorizing this who do not want real changes. they like the status quo. host: stella on twitter. i do not always agree with him, but i know he would be a great president. any interest? guest: my frustration is high enough. it is time for me to go home before i get in real trouble. i have done and been where i am going to be. host: senator coburn's fourth wastebook. you can see that on his website, coburn.senate.gov. you can look through that report of about 100 different examples of waste and unnecessary spending by the government. ken from georgia on our line for republicans. caller: senator coburn, glad to see you on the program. i have seen you on the other programs, on fox, discussing your latest edition of government waste. as you mentioned, i was just watching a program where there is a move afoot to have an amending constitutional convention of where the states' legislatures have to put forth the idea of amending the constitution. this would be to get t
we need to make real changes at the pentagon. you have people who are authorizing this who do not want real changes. they like the status quo. host: stella on twitter. i do not always agree with him, but i know he would be a great president. any interest? guest: my frustration is high enough. it is time for me to go home before i get in real trouble. i have done and been where i am going to be. host: senator coburn's fourth wastebook. you can see that on his website, coburn.senate.gov. you can...
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we do not make a thing at the pentagon. we depend on the industrial base to make our weapons systems, second only to our people, which make us the greatest military in the world. many of them will be affected directly by this. we will be cutting back on cuts -- on contractor spending. we have to find $36 billion between now and the ends of the year. the civilian military work force will only provide a low savings even if we do drastic things, a few billion dollars. all three of those populations upon whom we depend will have effects that will be serious and immediate. >> in your view, how many of these initial cuts will have lasting effects that will trickle on and be felt in the years ahead? readiness, if it is not immediate, how soon until the cuts will impact readiness for years to come? >> good question. we are doing everything we can to minimize lasting damage. you cannot eliminate it. i will give you two examples right away. when you cannot afford to begin overhaul or maintenance of a ship and you do for that maintena
we do not make a thing at the pentagon. we depend on the industrial base to make our weapons systems, second only to our people, which make us the greatest military in the world. many of them will be affected directly by this. we will be cutting back on cuts -- on contractor spending. we have to find $36 billion between now and the ends of the year. the civilian military work force will only provide a low savings even if we do drastic things, a few billion dollars. all three of those...
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once that concluded we both went back to the pentagon and immediately i ordered the deployment of these forces. >> in between 9:42 p.m. benghazi time when the first attack started at 5:00 p.m. when they lost their lives, what conversations it either of you have was secretary clinton/ -- would secretary clinton? >> would not have any conversations with secretary clinton. >> is the same trooper you -- true for you? my time is expired. senator we ask you about securing the compound in 23 days to do so. -- and the 23 days to do so. we saw news crews seeing sensitive documents. you said that you were not requested to secure the compound. had you been requested to secure the compound, the u.s. military could have done so effectively. >> yes. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> you can watch more on their testimony on the attack on the consulate's in benghazi. next, a feral ceremony for outgoing defense secretary leon panetta. president obama and the joint chiefs of staff paid tribute to him. the cere
once that concluded we both went back to the pentagon and immediately i ordered the deployment of these forces. >> in between 9:42 p.m. benghazi time when the first attack started at 5:00 p.m. when they lost their lives, what conversations it either of you have was secretary clinton/ -- would secretary clinton? >> would not have any conversations with secretary clinton. >> is the same trooper you -- true for you? my time is expired. senator we ask you about securing the...
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don rumsfeld was struggling with how to change the pentagon. the way he wanted to change it left us a less repressive -- less prepared for dealing with 9/11. he wanted to cut the army and was reluctant to build it up. it made it more difficult for folks to deal with afghanistan and iraq. you want to be able to move ahead and take advantage of new technologies when it comes to military affairs. you also have to make strategic judgments about what kind of military you will need to deal with the threats we face. i want to go back to the clips. senator hagel has a selective memory about vietnam. we should remember one of the problems of vietnam was we decided to pull out precipitously and abandoned the vietnamese to the north. we cut off military aid. we stopped paying and the like. if one were to take that analogy, there is a good chance we will be doing the same thing to our partners in afghanistan over the next year. there are lessons from vietnam. let's not forget that one either. host: let me go back to the front page story of "the new york ti
don rumsfeld was struggling with how to change the pentagon. the way he wanted to change it left us a less repressive -- less prepared for dealing with 9/11. he wanted to cut the army and was reluctant to build it up. it made it more difficult for folks to deal with afghanistan and iraq. you want to be able to move ahead and take advantage of new technologies when it comes to military affairs. you also have to make strategic judgments about what kind of military you will need to deal with the...